Monday, September 19, 2011

Despite being stylish, cheap and definitely innovative the Microdrives were -one has to admit- rather shoddy and infamously unreliable and that was exactly the gap the Opus Discovery Disk System aimed to cover. Costing almost 200 pounds, this pretty excellent backup/disk drive thingy wasn't a particularly popular add-on, but it definitely was a very handy solution. And it worked perfectly without eating away at the Speccy's humble RAM. No, really, here's a review.

Happily and due to its obvious retro status you can now grab one for a much more reasonable price via this Spectrum w/ Opus Discovery System auction. Not only will you be getting a fully working disk drive which doubles as a power source, but also a 48k ZX Spectrum, a TV-out cable, a manual and some disks. Seller ships worldwide.

Someday, someone's gonna take all those Interface 1's & 2's and all the other plug-in gubbins and expansion packs and plug them into one 48k Speccy, which'll be hooked up to the internet via a VTX 5000 modem and watch as it gains sentience and becomes the first A.I.